25/05/2025
Nearly 1,000 Moai statues—some weighing over 80 tons—dot the landscape of Easter Island.
Carved from volcanic rock and moved miles without wheels or metal, they remain one of history’s greatest mysteries.
Did the Rapa Nui people “walk” them using ropes? Or were they dragged on sleds?
Then—just as mysteriously—they stopped.
The tools were dropped. The island divided. The ecosystem collapsed.
🌋 What caused this ancient culture to stop building their stone giants?
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